Thunderbird is the largest mobile home park to close in Oregon since 2000 and the fate of the older, sometimes fragile, residents spurred legislation to help evicted homeowners.

Like many smaller parks within urban growth boundaries, Thunderbird's land was more valuable for development than as a park.

On Friday, a few people worked -- loading cars, prepping a home to move to another park, filling a van with a parent's furniture.

Clumps of buttery daffodils line walkways that lead to vacant homes with hopeful "For Sale" signs taped to streaked windows. Other lots are empty except for the outline of a foundation, a stairway or deck left behind.

Ray Parke lifted a box into the trunk of his car. After 14 years, he didn't want to leave his modest home.

"I'm one of the last," Parke said. "It was really hard.

"It's a nice little park," he said, then corrected himself. "It was. But, you know, it was yours."